Entries filed under 'Jeff Renner'

A Bolt from the Blue: Some Lightning Safety Tips for Lightning Awareness Week

News flash (not to be confused with a lightning flash): Lightning Awareness Week runs through Saturday, June 30. Test your high-voltage knowledge with this lightning-awareness quiz provided by Seattle television weather forecaster Jeff Renner (chief meteorologist at NBC affiliate KING-TV) and author of Mountain Weather: If a storm that includes lightning quickly develops while you're in high-elevation backcountry, your best move is to descend to a lower elevation. If that's not possible, which ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on July 3, 2012 1:49 PM & Tagged Jeff Renner, Mountain Weather, lightning and weather | permalink | Comments



Forecasters Who Embrace the Weather, Not Just Predict It

How adventurous is your weather forecaster? We see them in television studios, on decks, even leaning into hurricane-force winds and skin-pelting rain. I'm guessing they only take part in those howling, eye-of-the-storm remotes semi-voluntarily, but it emphasizes a point: The outdoors is central to their profession. So how many of them seriously go one-on-one with the outdoors for fun and adventure? We know of a few backcountry-savvy forecasters here in the Pacific Northwest, REI's home turf, ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on March 17, 2011 12:51 PM & Tagged Jeff Renner, Matt Zaffino, Rich Marriott, Shannon O'Donnell and weather forecasters | permalink | Comments